Month: April 2025

I caught up with Niilo Sevänen of Insomnium to talk about their Australian tour, working with Sakis Tolis of Rotting Christ, and the incredible story of a fan letter Niilo wrote to Sakis as a […]

Australian punk-rock trailblazers Stand Atlantic are thrilled to announce the release of the deluxe edition of their highly acclaimed 2024 album, WAS HERE, which debuted No.3 on the ARIA albums chart. Set to drop on […]

Melbourne Crust death metal band Küntsquäd unleash a lyric video for their single, Eat Your Entrails. This single was recorded 2024-25 exclusively for the Imperative Music Compilation #18 with limited worldwide distribution. Other bands featured on […]

LUNA KILLS has officially dropped their highly anticipated album, DEATHMATCH, via Sharptone Records, bringing their signature raw energy and fierce attitude to fans worldwide. Accompanying the release, the band has unveiled a brand-new music video for […]

This is the fourth single from On My Command’s recently released third album “CONQUER” and sees the band channelling Manowar and Grave Digger in a sharp and heavy traditional metal battle anthem. Guitarist and Vocalist […]

In 2026, prepare for the return of THE PLOT IN YOU to Australian shores, with the band today announcing a national headline run next January, joined by special guests FIT FOR A KING (USA), BOUNDARIES […]

The night started out with a huge queue forming outside the Roundhouse, of every kind of metalhead adorned in cosplay and corpse paint, ready to witness the greatest animated metal band in existence. Little did […]

Hot on the heels of re-visiting Latin American stages and announcing both a new album and a European headline tour for autumn 2025, Canadian premiere rock’n’roll three-piece DANKO JONES have released their highly anticipated single […]

Cleveland’s favorite filth metal practitioners, MIDNIGHT, will unleash Steel, Rust And Disgust on May 23rd via Metal Blade Records. One-man-army, Athenar, has been spewing out an ungodly racket, dropping countless demos, splits, EPs, and LPs […]

French multi-instrumentalist and producer Gautier Serre has been operating under the name IGORRR for twenty years now, yet each new record still resounds with a startling freshness and radical vitality. Steadfastly unclassifiable fifth album Amen, […]

British death metal legends, BENEDICTION, are celebrating the release of their highly anticipated new album Ravage Of Empires, not only with the coinciding release of a lyric video for the album’s devastating opening track ‘A […]

Swedish all-female melodic death metal powerhouse FRANTIC AMBER is celebrating the release of their brand new, brutal-as-hell third studio album, entitled “Death Becomes Her”, that is out now via ROAR! Available on CD, Vinyl and in […]

Bay Area icons MACHINE HEAD have sharpened their sound into its most direct and impactful form with the release of their eleventh album, UNATØNED. The record – which will be released on April 25th via Nuclear Blast Records – is a testament to momentum, […]

Slovenian futurists Within Destruction return to Australia on the eve of their sixth full-length ANIMETAL – their first for the legendary Sumerian Records. Having truly transcended their deathcore origins, the band’s once relentlessly brutal sound […]

Depressive black metallers GHOST BATH have emerged from beyond the veil with their new album, Rose Thorn Necklace, which will be released on May 9th via Nuclear Blast Records.  The band, in their 12th year of existence, are not in the […]

“Morgue Rat” is the latest single from Swedish death metal behemoths, LIK. The track, which features guest vocals by Linnea Landstedt (Tyranex, Ice Age), appears on the band’s  impending fourth full-length album, Necro, set for […]

Decadent sleaze-infested heavy metal/ hard rock l that drips in gore-hound horror movies and huge dollops of Satan is Wednesday 13. Mid Death Crisis is their tenth full-length offering to the lords of the darkened […]

Metal titans BLEED FROM WITHIN have today released their brand new studio album, Zenith, via Nuclear Blast Records. After their most successful year to date, Zenith‘s whirlwind of accomplished songwriting, white-hot metal fury and hard-earned confidence proves the best is yet to […]

Following a monumental emergence, Sleep Token returns with their second offering Caramel from their upcoming album Even In Arcadia, set to release on May 9th via RCA Records / Sony Music Australia. The new track blends […]

May 2nd will see iconic dark metal pioneers CREMATORY release their much-awaited, new studio album, “Destination”, via ROAR. Coming on CD, colored 2-LP Vinyl (incl. 4 bonus-Tracks), 3-CD Earbook (feat. the regular album, 4-track bonus […]

The wait is over, and today an astonishing new era for Melbourne’s Thornhill has arrived via their brand new studio album BODIES, out now via UNFD. A dauntless pastiche of creative freedom and ingenuity, BODIES […]

From New Zealand comes one of the most compelling and culturally interesting bands in metal today. Tu brings the new album Te Ra to life for us. Tūranga “Tu” Edmonds chats to us about the […]

Formed many lifetimes ago (well, 1980) THE CHURCH has earned a rightfully revered place in Australian rock music history along with a thoroughly deserved place in the ARIA Hall Of Fame. The Church continue to […]

Originally featured on her 2016 album The Shadow Self, ‘Diva’ is a dramatic and powerful anthem that quickly became a fan favourite and one of Tarja’s classics played on tour. This rendition, recorded in Bucharest at the […]